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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion ludibundum Simon, 1914

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026085

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Description

Tibial apophysis tapering, with pointed tip. Embolus curved, tapering, with pointed tip. Epigyne with two oblique, comma-shaped stripes. Prosoma brown to dark brown with dark markings. Legs yellowish orange. Opisthosoma dark purple-brown, ventrally pale yellowish

Body length male: 2.2-4.4 mm
Body length female: 3-5.3 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France (Corsica), Italy (Sicily), Algeria
Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025c)

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male Pedipalp, ventro-retrolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025c)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025c)

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male Tip of embolus
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Retinaculum
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans 1997)

Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Algeria   (Bouragba et al., 2012; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Bosmans R (1997) Revision of the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1833, part II.  Western and Central Europe, including Italy (Araneae: Zodariidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10: 265-294 pdf

Bouragba N, Bosmans R, Lieutier F (2012) Une nouvelle espèce de Zodarion Walckenaer, 1833 (Arachnida, Araneae) d'Algérie, avec un catalogue des Zodariidae du Maghreb. Bulletin de la Société Royale Belge d'Entomologie 148: 74-83 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Shafaie S, Pekár S, Korba J, Doumandji S, Berretima W (2025c) Contribution to the zodariid spider fauna (Araneae: Zodariidae) of Algeria. Journal of Natural History 59: 1895-1916 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
15-06-2025 Image insert
11-06-2025 Distribution update Detail
04-01-2021 Distribution insert Detail